Collect Needed Information for an Exchange 2007 Hybrid Deployment

Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP1

Topic Last Modified: 2011-08-15

To configure a hybrid deployment between your on-premises Exchange organization and the cloud-based organization, you're going to need information about your current deployment. You might want to print this step so you can record your organization's information and have easy access to it as you go through the checklist.

This topic is meant to be read as part of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Office 365 Hybrid Deployment checklist. Information or procedures in this topic may depend on prerequisites configured in topics earlier in the checklist. To view the checklist, see Checklist - Exchange 2007 and Office 365 Hybrid Deployment

We recommend using the Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool to analyze your existing Exchange organization and confirm that the prerequisites for a hybrid deployment are met. The readiness tool is integrated with the guidance provided in the Microsoft Office 365 Beta Deployment Guide and provides detailed assessments for Exchange Online, user identity and account provisioning, client and end-user experience, and many other areas.

You can use the following table to gather information about your existing organization that you're going to need before you get started with the deployment. When you're working through your checklist, replace the example information that you see in the checklist with the information you've provided in this table. For example, if the external fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of your Exchange 2007 server is exchange.adatum.com, enter that FQDN in the "Value in your organization" field.

Description

Example value in checklist

Value in your organization

Active Directory forest root

Corp.contoso.com

Internal Exchange 2007 Client Access/Hub Transport server host name

EX2007

External Exchange 2007 Client Access/Hub Transport server FQDN

mail1.contoso.com

Proposed internal hybrid server host name

EX2010

Proposed external hybrid server FQDN

mail2.contoso.com

Outlook Web App URL

Owa.contoso.com

Primary SMTP namespace

Contoso.com

User principal name domain

Microsoft Online ID domain

Contoso.com

The following table lists new services that you configure as part of the hybrid deployment. For the values you provide in the table below, we recommend that you replace contoso.com with your domain name and use the example subdomains provided below. For example, if your domain is adatum.com, we recommend that you enter service.adatum.com in the "Value in your organization" field for the service SMTP namespace.

Description

Example value in checklist

Value in your organization

Service SMTP namespace

Important You must not use the service tenant FQDN, specified below, as the service SMTP namespace. We recommend that you use service.<your domain>.

Service.contoso.com

Internal Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) server hostname

ADFS

External AD FS server FQDN

Sts.contoso.com

Internal Active Directory synchronization server host name

DirSync

Exchange federation trust namespace

Exchangedelegation.contoso.com

On-premises Autodiscover FQDN

Autodiscover.contoso.com

Service Autodiscover FQDN

Autodiscover.service.contoso.com

Service tenant FQDN

Note You can only choose the subdomain portion of this FQDN. The domain portion must be "onmicrosoft.com".

Contoso.onmicrosoft.com

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